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Here’s a favorite from Gavin Aung Than’s work at http://zenpencils.com/. Check more of his works here. Hope this art kindles the entrepreneur in us. 

This is a book worth keeping by your bedside for a couple of months and savor a random idea or two before sleeping. Here’s a peek into some notes I took from the book. “Clean” Restrooms. Says “We Care”. Fix your voice message, now! “Small stuff” matters. A lot! Flower Power. Put them all over…

Choose to think of yourself as a Founder A beautiful thought I picked from the book WORK RULES by Laszlo Bock. YOU can lay the foundation for how your team works and lives. Building an exceptional team or institution starts with a founder. But being a founder doesn’t mean starting a new company. It is…

Here’s a favorite from Gavin Aung Than’s work at http://zenpencils.com/. Check more of his works here. 

A Mission that Matters A group’s culture can be studied in three ways: by looking at the artifacts, such as physical space and behaviors; by surveying the beliefs and values espoused by group members; or by digging deeper into the underlying assumptions behind those values. People interpret strong cultures based on the artifacts, because they’re…

I recently signed up for Oliver Burkeman‘s twice-monthly “The Imperfectionist” email newsletter. Here is an edited excerpt of one of the articles I loved. Podcaster Sam Harris recalls being in the middle of a long session of moaning to a friend, about all the crap he was dealing with at the time, when she interrupted him.…

A note from the book “The End of Average.” Number of close friends an average friend possesses is 8.6. Number of romantic partners the average person kisses in a lifetime is 15 for women, 15 for men. Number of fights over money the average couple instigates each month is 3. It is the rare person…

In The Creators Code, Amy Wilkinson identifies three mind-sets of creators. Sunbirds Architects Integrators The Itch of Curiosity The Creator’s most important tool is curiosity. Bold and incisive inquiry sharpens the mind and senses and leads to unexpected discoveries, fresh opportunities, and aha! moments. Sunbirds, Architects and Integrators all ask a myriad of questions. They don’t lose…

An extract from Tim Brown’s Change by Design. One way to help design thinking diffuse throughout an organization is for designers to make their clients part of the experience. We do this because we find that we invariably get much better results when the client is on board and actively participating. But be forewarned: it…

Richard Sheridan (Cofounder and CEO, Menlo Innovations) wrote Joy Inc to share insight into all XP practices that worked for his Org. Here he shares how Menlo handles scaling up or down. Software teams built on hero models are hard to scale. Heroes won’t have the time to train up another hero — they are…